The Editors: Luk Bouckaert is professor emeritus of ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is founder and director of the SPES Academy and president of the European SPES Forum (SPES being an acronym for SPirituality in Economics and Society).Hendrick Opdebeeck is professor of philosophy and economics at the University of Antwerp where he is affiliated to the Centre for Ethics. In 2004 together with Luk Bouckaert he founded the SPES Academy.Laszlo Zsolnai is professor and director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Inter-faculty Group of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS).

• Contents: Luk Bouckaert/Hendrik Opdebeeck/Laszlo Zsolnai: Why Frugality – Luk Bouckaert: Rational versus Spiritual Concepts of Frugality – Rafael Esteban: Frugality and the Body – Francis Kadaplackal: How the Idea ‘Created Co-Creator’ Can Contribute to the Nurturing of Frugality in Economic Life – Laurie Michaelis: Quaker Simplicity – Dirk Geldof: Overconsumption – Ronald Commers/Wim Vandekerckhove: Frugality and the Moral Economy of Late Capitalism – Knut Ims/Ove Jacobsen: Consumerism and Frugality: Contradictory Principles in Economics? – Hendrik Opdebeeck: The Urgency of a Frugality-based Economics – Herman E. Daly: Frugality First – Ronald Jeurissen/Bert van de Ven: Frugal Marketing: Can Selling Less Make Business Sense? – Robert H. Frank: The Progressive Consumption Tax – Laszlo Zsolnai: Buddhist Economic Strategy.

The Editors: Luk Bouckaert is professor emeritus of ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is founder and director of the SPES Academy and president of the European SPES Forum (SPES being an acronym for SPirituality in Economics and Society).Hendrick Opdebeeck is professor of philosophy and economics at the University of Antwerp where he is affiliated to the Centre for Ethics. In 2004 together with Luk Bouckaert he founded the SPES Academy.Laszlo Zsolnai is professor and director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Inter-faculty Group of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS).

• Contents: Luk Bouckaert/Hendrik Opdebeeck/Laszlo Zsolnai: Why Frugality – Luk Bouckaert: Rational versus Spiritual Concepts of Frugality – Rafael Esteban: Frugality and the Body – Francis Kadaplackal: How the Idea ‘Created Co-Creator’ Can Contribute to the Nurturing of Frugality in Economic Life – Laurie Michaelis: Quaker Simplicity – Dirk Geldof: Overconsumption – Ronald Commers/Wim Vandekerckhove: Frugality and the Moral Economy of Late Capitalism – Knut Ims/Ove Jacobsen: Consumerism and Frugality: Contradictory Principles in Economics? – Hendrik Opdebeeck: The Urgency of a Frugality-based Economics – Herman E. Daly: Frugality First – Ronald Jeurissen/Bert van de Ven: Frugal Marketing: Can Selling Less Make Business Sense? – Robert H. Frank: The Progressive Consumption Tax – Laszlo Zsolnai: Buddhist Economic Strategy.

The Editors: Luk Bouckaert is professor emeritus of ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is founder and director of the SPES Academy and president of the European SPES Forum (SPES being an acronym for SPirituality in Economics and Society).Hendrick Opdebeeck is professor of philosophy and economics at the University of Antwerp where he is affiliated to the Centre for Ethics. In 2004 together with Luk Bouckaert he founded the SPES Academy.Laszlo Zsolnai is professor and director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Inter-faculty Group of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS).

• Contents: Luk Bouckaert/Hendrik Opdebeeck/Laszlo Zsolnai: Why Frugality – Luk Bouckaert: Rational versus Spiritual Concepts of Frugality – Rafael Esteban: Frugality and the Body – Francis Kadaplackal: How the Idea ‘Created Co-Creator’ Can Contribute to the Nurturing of Frugality in Economic Life – Laurie Michaelis: Quaker Simplicity – Dirk Geldof: Overconsumption – Ronald Commers/Wim Vandekerckhove: Frugality and the Moral Economy of Late Capitalism – Knut Ims/Ove Jacobsen: Consumerism and Frugality: Contradictory Principles in Economics? – Hendrik Opdebeeck: The Urgency of a Frugality-based Economics – Herman E. Daly: Frugality First – Ronald Jeurissen/Bert van de Ven: Frugal Marketing: Can Selling Less Make Business Sense? – Robert H. Frank: The Progressive Consumption Tax – Laszlo Zsolnai: Buddhist Economic Strategy.